Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

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Report: UXL Foundation seeks to prepare alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA by year’s end

The UXL Foundation, a group of major chip industry players, expects that its alternative to Nvidia Corp.’s CUDA technology will become “mature” by year’s end.  Reuters reported the group’s development schedule today. The technology the UXL Foundation’s members are building could make it easier to move workloads from Nvidia chips to rival processors. In the ...

Foundational nabs $8M to help developers fix data quality issues faster

Foundational Data Inc., a startup helping enterprises ensure their internal datasets are accurate, today announced that it has raised $8 million to finance growth initiatives.  Viola Ventures and Google LLC’s Gradient Ventures fund led the seed round. They were joined by executives from Meta Platforms Inc., Datadog Inc. and other major tech firms. Against the ...

Samsung co-leads $60M funding round for chip interconnect startup Eliyan

Chip interconnect startup Eliyan Corp. today announced that it has secured $60 million in new funding from a group of prominent investors.  Samsung Catalyst Fund and Tiger Global led the Series B round. They were joined by several other institutional backers, including Intel Capital and SK hynix Inc., one of the world’s largest memory chip ...

Report: GPU cloud operator CoreWeave seeking new funding at $16B valuation

CoreWeave Inc. is holding talks about a new funding round that could value it at $16 billion, Bloomberg reported today. That sum is more than double what the company was worth in December and would represent an eightfold increase over its April valuation. Bloomberg’s sources didn’t specify how much capital CoreWeave could raise or from ...

Apple reportedly cancels internal effort to develop custom microLED displays

Apple Inc. has reportedly canceled an internal effort to develop microLED screens, which offer better display quality than competing technologies and are less susceptible to certain malfunctions. Bloomberg reported the move today, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple reportedly scrapped the project around the same time it ended a long-running internal effort to design ...

Foundry launches with $80M in funding to build an AI-optimized public cloud

Foundry Technologies Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, launched today with $80 million in funding. Fortune reported that Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital led the investment. They were joined by more than a dozen other investors, including Microsoft Corp.’s venture capital arm, Google LLC Chief Scientist Jeff Dean ...

Microsoft debuts enterprise-focused Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6

Microsoft Corp. today debuted the Surface Pro 10 for Business and the Surface Laptop 6 for Business, the two latest additions to its line of enterprise-focused Windows computers. The devices feature not only improved specifications but also new software. Workers can use a preinstalled program, called the Windows App, to quickly log into virtual desktops ...

Redis acquires storage engine startup Speedb to enhance its open-source database

Redis Ltd. has acquired Speedb Ltd., the developer of a storage engine it uses to power its commercial database offerings. The company didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the deal today. Tel Aviv-based Speedb previously raised $4 million through a funding round that closed in 2021. It announced a partnership with Redis ...

IPO winter ending? Astera Labs and Reddit surge in stock trading debuts

Updated: The tech industry’s first major public offering of the year exceeded expectations today, while the second priced at the top end of its target range to raise more than $500 million.  Astera Labs Inc., a supplier of chips for cloud data centers, raised $712.8 million in its IPO late Tuesday by selling 19.8 million ...

Three of Stable Diffusion’s original developers reportedly leave Stability AI

Three members of Stability AI Ltd.’s research team have reportedly left the well-funded artificial intelligence startup. Sifted and Forbes reported the development today, citing people familiar with the matter. Stability AI confirmed one of the three researchers’ departure. The news comes only a day after Inflection AI Inc., another high-profile generative AI startup, also announced ...